The 1990s witnessed a surge of feminist human rights scholarship and activism in international law which has shaped jurisprudential and institutional developments, yet gender issues and human rights still remains a topical and evolving field of study. In this collection, Professor Otto brings together seminal works which are united in their aim of challenging the existing gendered hierarchies of power, inequality and those natural foundations that have justified oppressive gender stereotypes. Included works cover, among others, the history and early developments of women's rights, structural critiques of international human rights law, recognizing new human rights, linking women's needs and human rights and thinking beyond the duality of gender. This two-volume set, along with an original introduction by the editor, will be an excellent research tool for students, academics and practitioners interested in this dynamic field of study.
Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Dianne Otto PART I: GENEALOGIES: HISTORIES OF STRUGGLE 1. Arvonne S. Fraser (1999), 'Becoming Human: The Origins and Development of Women's Human Rights' 2. Felice D. Gaer (1998), 'And Never the Twain Shall Meet? The Struggle to Establish Women's Rights as International Human Rights' 3. Karen Engle (1992), 'International Human Rights and Feminism: When Discourses Meet' 4. Dianne Otto (2006), 'Lost in Translation: Re-Scripting the Sexed Subjects of International Human Rights Law' PART II: WOMEN'S NEEDS OR WOMEN'S RIGHTS? EARLY NORMATIVE AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS 5. Johannes Morsink (1991), 'Women's Rights in the Universal Declaration' 6. Natalie Kaufman Hevener (1978), 'International Law and the Status of Women: An Analysis of International Legal Instruments Related to the Treatment of Women' 7. Laura Reanda (1981), 'Human Rights and Women's Rights: The United Nations Approach' 8. Helen Bequaert Holmes (1983), 'A Feminist Analysis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' 9. Noreen Burrows (1985), 'The 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women' 10. Andrew C. Byrnes (1989), 'The "Other" Human Rights Treaty Body: The Work of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women' 11. Abdullahi An-Na'im (1987), 'The Rights of Women and International Law in the Muslim Context' PART III: PUBLIC/PRIVATE, LOCAL/GLOBAL: STRUCTURAL CRITIQUES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 12. Celina Romany (1993), 'Women as Aliens: A Feminist Critique of the Public/Private Distinction in International Human Rights Law' 13. Hilary Charlesworth (1994), 'What are "Women's International Human Rights"?' 14. J. Oloka-Onyango and Sylvia Tamale (1995), '"The Personal Is Political," or Why Women's Rights are Indeed Human Rights: An African Perspective on International Feminism' 15. V. Spike Peterson and Laura Parisi (1998), 'Are Women Human? It's not an Academic Question' 16. Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin (1993), 'The Gender of Jus Cogens' 17. Karen Engle (1993), 'After the Collapse of the Public/Private Distinction: Strategizing Women's Rights' 18. L. Amede Obiora (1997), 'Feminism, Globalization, and Culture: After Beijing' 19. Christine Chinkin and Shelley Wright (1993), 'The Hunger Trap: Women, Food, and Self-Determination' 20. Anne Orford (1998), 'Contesting Globalization: A Feminist Perspective on the Future of Human Rights' Volume II Acknowledgements An Introduction to all three volumes by the Editor appears in Volume I PART I: WHICH WOMEN? WHOSE RIGHTS? BUILDING MULTICULTURAL AND INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISMS 1. Isabelle R. Gunning (1991 - 2), 'Arrogant Perception, World-Travelling and Multicultural Feminism: The Case of Female Genital Surgeries' 2. Ratna Kapur (2002), 'The Tragedy of Victimization Rhetoric: Resurrecting the "Native" Subject in International/Post-Colonial Feminist Legal Politics' 3. Radhika Coomaraswamy (2002 - 2003), 'Identity Within: Cultural Relativism, Minority Rights and the Empowerment of Women' 4. Penelope Andrews (1997), 'Violence Against Aboriginal Women in Australia: Possibilities for Redress within the International Human Rights Framework' 5. Adila Abusharaf (2006), 'Women in Islamic Communities: The Quest for Gender Justice Research' 6. Tracy E. Higgins (1996), 'Anti-Essentialism, Relativism, and Human Rights' 7. Shefali Desai (1999), 'Hearing Afghan Women's Voices: Feminist Theory's Re-Conceptualization of Women's Human Rights' 8. Kimberle Crenshaw (1989), 'Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics' 9. Johanna E. Bond (2003), 'International Intersectionality: A Theoretical and Pragmatic Exploration of Women's International Human Rights Violations' PART II: WOMEN ARE HUMAN TOO: RECONCEPTUALIZING MAINSTREAM HUMAN RIGHTS 10. Rhonda Copelon (1994), 'Recognizing the Egregious in the Everyday: Domes